Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles from home would raise problems even in the conditions of a tropical paradise. In autumn in the Roaring Forties [the South Atlantic from 40° to 50° latitude, a region near the Falklands known for rough seas] what has to be done must be done quickly. Argentina's advantage lay in spinning the negotiations out, Britain's in speedy resolution. Be bold, be bloody, be resolute if you really must-but be quick...
...than a hungry agent! More identifiable in cape than collar! Now able to deliver long sermons in a single breath! Look! Up in the pulpit! It's a man! It's a priest! It's Christopher Reeve not playing Superman! In Monsignor, the Man of Steel quick-changes to become a man of the cloth. Reeve, 29, plays an Irish Catholic priest from New York's Lower East Side who rises to become a Cardinal. The actor, a lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily...
Perkins is quick to assert that HIID would never consider a project in a country with a record of "extreme human rights violations." He cites the Central African Republic under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa as an example of such an extreme case. Crowned in a garrish ceremony attended by many world leaders in the mid-70s, Bokassa was forced to abdicate his throne because of widespread accusations that he had personally murdered, and later eaten, dozens of schoolchildren...
...know in sorting out this relationship is the answers to two questions: Can computers think (a technical problem)? And, should they think (a moral one)? In order to get at both, it is first necessary to agree on what thinking itself is-what thought means-and that is no quick step. Every period in history has had to deal with at least two main definitions of thought, which mirror the prevailing philosophies of that particular time and are usually in opposition. Moreover, these contending schools change from age to age. On a philosophical level, thought cannot know itself because...
...underworld out to make a killing in real estate while some mysterious rivals make more spectacular killings of his henchmen. Director John Mackenzie's idea of subtle menace is to show a victim's hand nailed to the floor; and Hoskins, in moments of stress, is too quick to bare his lower teeth and gnar. Even then, he is oddly entertaining to watch-rather like a vole making a predatory lunge and landing in a coyote's open mouth...